1141James Madison to Alexander Macomb, 22 July 1834 (Madison Papers)
Professor Bonnycastle is desirous of obtaining your opinion on an improvement he has thought of in canals and on some points connected with our school of Civil engineering. Being a stranger to you he has asked from me a line of introduction I give it with pleasure as due to his personal merits as well as to his high scientific reputation. I offer no apology therefore for the liberty I take...
1142From James Madison to Albert Gallatin, 21 June 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ To Albert Gallatin. 21 June 1806, Department of State. “I request you to be pleased to place in the Branch Bank at Boston two thousand dollars from the appropriations for Barbary Intercourse, to the credit of James L. Cathcart, who is to be charged with the same.” Letterbook copy ( DNA : RG 59, DL , vol. 15). 1 p.
1143From James Madison to John Wickham, 19 May 1807 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. your letter of the 15th. instant. The affidavits, to which it refers, have not been filed in this Dept. nor is it recollected that any such have been transmitted to the Executive. Should they be hereafter recd. the copies which you request will be forwarded without delay. I am &c. DNA : RG 59—DL—Domestic Letters.
1144From James Madison to Congress, 5 January 1810 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
5 January 1810. Transmits the director of the Mint’s annual report for 1809. RC and enclosures, two copies ( DNA : RG 233, President’s Messages; and DNA : RG 46, Legislative Proceedings, 11A-E5). Each RC 1 p., in a clerk’s hand, signed by JM. Received by both houses on 10 Jan. Read and tabled by the Senate on 10 Jan. and by the House on 11 Jan. ( Annals of Congress Debates and Proceedings in...
1145From James Madison to John Dawson, ca. 5 May 1798 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. Ca. 5 May 1798. Mentioned in JM to Jefferson, 5 May 1798 . Requests from Dawson a small balance—between $30 and $40—to be given to Jefferson.
1146From James Madison to John Dawson, 15 January 1794 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 15 January 1794. Acknowledged in Dawson to JM, 23 Jan. 1794 . Mentions two causes of opposition to JM’s resolutions on commercial discrimination.
1147From James Madison to Anthony Charles Cazenove, 16 December 1811 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 16 December 1811. Acknowledged in Cazenove to JM, 17 Dec. 1811 . Encloses a check for $385.55 to pay both the account of Murdoch, Yuille, Wardrop, & Company and that of Cazenove. Forwards a letter for Cathcart at Madeira.
1148From James Madison to Joseph Jones, 21 February 1792 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 21 February 1792. Acknowledged in Jones to JM, 2 Mar. 1792 . Concerns the terms of the Presidential Succession Act of 1792.
1149From James Madison to Albert Gallatin, 14 May 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ To Albert Gallatin. 14 May 1806, Department of State. “I have the honor to request that you will be pleased to cause two thousand dollars, from the Foreign Intercourse fund to be remitted to William Pinkney Esqr. at Baltimore, who is to be charged with the same, as Commissioner Extraordinary to Great Britain.” Letterbook copy ( DNA : RG 59, DL , vol. 15). 1 p.
1150From James Madison to Edmund Randolph, 22 January 1782—Misdated (Madison Papers)
Letter misdated. 22 January 1782[3]. The manuscript of this document is now missing. A printed copy is in Madison, Papers (Gilpin ed.) Henry D. Gilpin, ed., The Papers of James Madison (3 vols.; Washington, 1840). , I, 111–12. Many years after writing the letter, JM selected at least a portion of it for inclusion in the earliest edition of his papers. Either JM misdated the letter a year too...